# ballon
## English
### Etymology

From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bəˈlɒn/

### Noun

ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)
* (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
** 1988 November 18, Dorothy Samachson, “Moscow Classical Ballet”, in Chicago Reader‎:Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.

#### See also

* Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* no ball

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baˈlɔn/

### Noun

ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)
* balloon

#### Derived terms

* ballonvaarder
* ballonvaart
* lugballon
* warmlugballon

## Albanian
### Noun

ballon m (plural ballona)
* Alternative form of balonë f

### References

* Mann, S. E. (1948) “ballon”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 19a

## Danish
### Etymology

From French ballon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /balɔnɡ/, [b̥aˈlʌŋ]

### Noun

ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)
* balloon (inflatable object)
* bulb
* carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
* (ballet, singular only) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)

#### Descendants

* → Greenlandic: ballonngi

### Further reading

* “ballon” in Den Danske Ordbog
* ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ballon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑˈlɔn/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bal‧lon
* Rhymes: -ɔn

### Noun

ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)
* balloon
    De kinderen lieten een ballon op tijdens het feest.The children released a balloon during the party.
* hot-air balloon
    Synonym: heteluchtballon

#### Derived terms

* ballonoptocht
* ballonvaarder
* ballonvaart
* een ballonnetje oplaten
* heliumballon
* heteluchtballon
* luchtballon
* meetballon
* proefballon
* tekstballon
* waterballon

#### Related terms

* bal
* ballonet

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: ballon
* → Indonesian: balon
* → Papiamentu: balòn

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ballon. Doublet of balloune.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ba.lɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔ̃

### Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)
* (inflatable) ball
** beachball
* balloon
* (chemistry) round-bottom flask

#### Derived terms

* ballon à air chaud
* ballon à gaz
* ballon cerf-volant
* ballon de baudruche
* ballon dirigeable
* ballon d’essai
* ballon d’oxygène
* ballon rond
* ballon-chasseur
* ballon-pilote
* ballon-satellite
* ballon-sonde
* ballonnet
* crever un ballon
* faire ballon

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: balonë
* → Alemannic German: Balung
* → Arabic: بالون (bālūn)
* → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܵܠܘܿܢܵܐ (bālōnā)
* → Bulgarian: балон (balon)
* → Bwatoo: balo
* → Catalan: baló
* → Czech: balón
* → Danish: ballon
** → Greenlandic: ballonngi
* → Dutch: ballon
** Afrikaans: ballon
** → Indonesian: balon
** → Papiamentu: balòn
* → English: ballon
* → Greek: μπαλόνι (balóni)
* → Hausa: balan
* → Northern Kurdish: balon
* → Latvian: balons
* → Lithuanian: balionas
* → Macedonian: балон (balon)
* → Norwegian: ballong
* → Ottoman Turkish: بالون (balon), պալօն (balon) — Armeno-Turkish
** → Armenian: պալօն (palōn)
** Turkish: balon
* → Persian: بالون (bâlon)
* → Portuguese: balão
* → Romanian: balon
* → Russian: баллон (ballon)
** → Armenian: բալոն (balon)
** → Georgian: ბალონი (baloni)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: балон
    Latin script: balon
* → Slovak: balón
* → Slovene: balon
* → Swedish: ballong

### See also

* balle

### Further reading

* “ballon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Etymology

From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.

### Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)
* large ball

#### Descendants

* French: ballon (see there for further descendants)
* → English: balloon (see there for further descendants)

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈpallon/

### Verb

ballon
* first-person singular imperative of ballat